Best of luck in your new venture. Your program is still the cleanest and best out there. Ira J Lund wrote: >Dear CFT Users, > >As many of you long time users realize – I have done a lot less work on CFT >the past 18 months than I used to do. There was a time when I worked on the >program regularly and issued updates every 2-3 months. I started Cumberland >Family Software in 1991 – so it has been 14 years since I have “been in >business”. However, as some of you may know “shareware” is usually not the >same as a regular business. For me it has been more of a hobby as the small >company has never generated enough income to be a real business, basically >only giving me some extra spending money. When PAF came became FREE several >years ago, my business dropped off quite a bit and has never recovered. Most >genealogy shareware programs last only a few years – as most programmers who >enter the market soon get disappointed at the meager returns. I have stayed >on because I use CFT myself (just under 60,000 names in my database) and >have had a very high interest in my own genealogy and CFT. If I was in it >for the money, I think I would have quit years ago. > >Recently I have accepted a new job and moved to Pennsylvania – I was in >Tennessee – and with the move and new job, it seems there is even less time >for CFT. I have decided not to entirely shut my business down, but simply to >drop the price (from $45 to $25) – one price for all (new and upgrades) and >cut back my web site (it is now a single page). > >George Durman, who operated this mailing list tells me that Rootsweb really >never shuts down Mailing Lists – so this List could still be monitored – but >emails (for both orders and questions) have dropped off quite a bit anyway. >And as many of you know there is not much traffic on this mailing list >anyway. So you are free to still post messages to the List for now. > >I will still retain my website and current email address. But I really have >no intentions to work on or improve CFT. If business were to really drop off >then perhaps one day I may eventually remove the program entirely from sale. >But I don’t really expect to do that for many years – until the program >becomes so outdated by newer offerings on the market that no one really >cares for CFT any more. It is not difficult for me to simply fill orders by >emailing the user code to purchasers. So I will continue to do that and to >respond to technical support questions as usual. > >I know there are many CFT users who will be disappointed. And I do feel some >responsibility to continue to answer questions as best I can for all users. >I do appreciate all the compliments and help I have received from many of >you over the years. > >Thanks, Ira > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- >Mr. Ira J. Lund >Cumberland Family Software >www.cf-software.com > > > > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > CFT-WIN-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > CFT-WIN-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) >Subject: unsubscribe >In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >(Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > > > >